Example sentences of "have a [adj] and [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole Loch Tay area has a fascinating and rich history stretching back to prehistoric times , none of which I 'm prepared to share with you . |
| 2 | It has a rich and colourful history , which can still be traced in its fortifications , towers and old city gates . |
| 3 | The University of Edinburgh is one of the ancient universities of Scotland and as such has a long and fascinating history on which to build towards a dynamic future at the forefront of teaching and research . |
| 4 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 5 | The use of the streets and other public places as venues in which to air grievances and complaints ( and to celebrate achievements ) has a long and hallowed history . |
| 6 | Vindication of the right to vote has a long and proud history . |
| 7 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 8 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 9 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 10 | The city of Shechem has a long and important history . |
| 11 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 12 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 13 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 14 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 15 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 16 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 17 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 18 | But it has a dark and ancient history . ’ |
| 19 | It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple . |
| 20 | St Mary 's had a sad and long history of neglect . |
| 21 | Although black film making in America dates back to the days of the silents , it has had a dismal and frustrating history . |
| 22 | This period enabled us to be sure that a single patient had a chronic and persistent history of symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux . |
| 23 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | These have a long and complex history of development , but no definitive book has yet been written on them — it is one of the great needs for students of the developing landscape . |
| 25 | Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years . |
| 26 | Other listening modes — for instance , those where music is associated with activities of various kinds , the sounds perhaps impinging on muscles , skin , nerves as much as conscious thought processes — have a long and continuous history , however ; and , still , as anthropologists have shown , a living ethnography . |
| 27 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 28 | The concepts of difference and otherness , and the belief that sexual deviance leads to undifferentiation , have a philosophical and theological history , both of which antecede and influence psychoanalysis . |